Re: NSW Rail scene, Info required please.
BRAD PEADON (alco@planet.net.au)
Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:09:44 +1000
Leslie Brown wrote:
>
> "Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au> wrote in aus.rail:
>
> >The 80 class story has been going around at Port Kembla for at least six
> >months. BHP loco staff are not very optimistic about the reliability of the
> >units given their recent track record, but if the trial is successful and
> >the cost to run the units is better I'm sure they will use them.
>
> Could it be C503 then as another reconditioned hire from Austrac?
>
> You might be seeing more ex C's up north than you could have imagined!
> That it would be better suited to BHP's needs is for certain.
>
> Anyway, just a thought.
>
> Les Brown.
Dear Les,
Two 80 are currently being readied at DELEC to go to Port Kembla
for trials at BHP, if successful they will purchase ten units.
I am not sure that Austrak owns the C class currently in Junee.I
believe it to be in the hands of NRC drivers.I would actually like to
know the truth behind this.I also wonder if the C could run over all BHP
lines with its weight.
BRAD alco@planet.net.au